The entire complex was built in 1815-17 for the wealthy merchant and ship-owner Jørgen Peter Bech, grandfather of the writer Wilhelm Bergsøe who provides an affectionate account of his many visits as a child in his 1898 memoirs De forbistrede drenge.

Eilert Madsen, a captain sailing on the Danish West Indies, resided in the building with his wife Eva Hingst, their two sons (aged three and four), two maids and one lodger.

[3] Christiane Belling, a widow, resided in the building with the lodger Lars Brund (a royal lackey) and one maid.

[4] Christen Pedersen Bramer, a beer seller (øltapper) and stableman for Prince Abel Catrine Ols Datter, their two daughters (aged two and seven) and three lodgers.

Andres Nielsen Eggeroed, a master mason and its owner, resided in the building with his wife Johanne Poulsen, a caretaker and two maids.

[7] Christian Magdalus Thestrup Cold, a lawyer and later Chief of Police in Copenhagen, resided in the building with his wife Beata Nissen, their three children (aged one to seven) and two maids.

[9] Sofie Amalia Arnkiel (1645), a widow, resided in the building with two daughters (aged 24 and 26), an 11-year-old grandson, one maid and one lodger (student).

[10] Peder Hansen, a beer seller (øltapper), resided in the building with his wife Sidsel Lars Datter, their two-year-old son Hans Christian, one maid and one lodger.

Her father, Jacob Albert Meyer, a grocer (urtekræmmer) and tea and porcelain merchant, had owned the property at Gammel Strand No.

They had four children by the time that their new home was completed: Jørgen Albert (1808-1876), Louise Sophie (1810-1845), Edvard (1812-1873) and August Willads (1815-1871).

The Black Cock was from then on only used as the firm's office and as a residence for the clerk Nyholm and the family's physician Dr.

Bergsøe often visited the house on Sundays and in holidays and has described his grandfather's home in Nybrogade in De forbistrede børn.

Her husband's cousin Jacob Elias Holck (1776-1842) rented the ground-floor apartment from 1831 until his death in 1842.

[14] Jørgen Peter Bech resided in the building with his wife, three of their children, his sister-in-law Anne Marie Schmidt and two maids at the 1840 census.

Beck's former employee Anthon Michael Nyholm (1814-1870) was later licensed as a merchant (grosserer) in his own right.

Anthon and Marie Nyholm resided on the first floor withtheir first chilnd, Anne (aged), (née Mortensen), one male servant and three maids.

[20] Benedicte Ulfsparre de Tuxen (1790-1877), widow of admiral Carl Adolph Rothe, resided on the second floor with one maid.

[21] Katharine Dichmann, a widow, resided on the ground floor with the unmarried woman Jacobine Møller and one maid.

[25] Bendicte Rothe, widow of Ehrenreich Christopher Ludvig Koefoed, resided on the second floor with Cathrine Colen and one maid.

Two unmarried women, Bartholomine Aagesen and Frederikke Caroline Suhr, resided on the first floor.

Rose Rosen (née Fog), a widow, resided on the second floor with her two daughters (aged 12 and 15) and one maid.